“The overseer’s whip is now fully supplanted by the lash of hunger! And the auction block by the chain-gang and convict cell” PovertyRacismSlaveryPrisonHungerSouthern United StatesSouthern UsaBlack Codes Author:Lucy Parsons
“Is it really true, Sailor, that Alabama has a king?" Sidney asked. "The south has always been a monarchy in some form or another. Everybody thinks they're the king of something here. People, land, business.” KingsSouthMonarchyMonarchsAlabamaSouthern United StatesSouthern Usa Book:Sky Full of Elephants Source: Sky Full of Elephants
“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as is now being perpetrated upon the Negro in the South. How easy for us to go to Russia and drop a tear of sympathy over the persecuted Jew. But a step across Mason's and Dixon's line will bring us upon a scene of horrors before which those of Russia, bad as they are, pale into insignificance! No irresponsible, blood-thirsty mobs prowl over Russian territory, lashing and lynching its citizens.” RussiaJewishLynchingAmerican SouthBlack AmericansMason DixonMob ViolenceSouthern Usa1892 Author:Lucy Parsons